Homemade Wedding Favors for Spring

Buy Supplies at Discount Prices

One of the biggest advantages of making wedding favors early is that you can find the best prices for your supplies. Christmas sales at craft and fabric stores make picking up all of the needed bulk items cheap and easy. Watch circulars, television ads, and online local deal websites for the best sales in your area.

After holiday and New Year’s sales also lend themselves to big savings. Grab red, green, or winter white ribbons for clearance prices along with other basics. As long as your favors are non-perishable, you can make them months ahead of your wedding and be able to cross one more thing off your wedding planning timeline checklist. If they are perishable, it still helps to have wrapping supplies ahead of time, at a discount.

Do not forget to stop by your local office supply store. There, you may find great deals on wedding graphics programs, perfect for adding clipart to your wedding favor tags. Pick up some extra computer ink while it is on sale for the holidays.

Instructions for Homemade Wedding Favors for Spring

The best wedding favors are ones that wedding guests can put to use when they leave the wedding or that remind them of the event. Homemade wedding favors do not have to be complicated or difficult. Use the season to jumpstart your list of ideas for homemade favors for spring.

While hand-carved birdhouses would be unique favors, most couples do not have the time to make such complicated favors for guests. Instead, try to find favors that maximize the season’s offerings while minimizing labor. Consider making the spring favor ideas listed below.

Painted Pots and Seeds

Supplies:

• Mini terra cotta pots
• Sponge shape (bee, flower, butterfly)
• Paint (in wedding colors)
• Green ribbon
• Flower seed packets

Dip shaped sponge into the paint. Sponge shapes onto pot in random pattern. Wait for the paint to dry, and then tie a thick green ribbon around the pot. Attach a favor tag with a saying like “John and Jaime are planting their seeds of love on (date).”

Butterfly Bookmarkers

Supplies:

• Heavy cardstock
• Butterfly craft punch
• Butterfly stickers
• Computer and printer

Using a computer graphics program, create bookmarkers with a favorite quotation regarding love or weddings. Print onto heavy cardstock. Cut into individual markers, and then embellish using craft punch and stickers.

Ladybug Candleholders

Supplies:

• Red votive holder
• Black paint
• Craft eyes
• Votive candles

Dip finger into the black paint. Scatter dots across the candleholders, drawing a line across the back to indicate wing separation. Add eyeballs to the front of the candleholder. Place a red or black votive inside the holder.

Tap Into Talents

You can make homemade wedding favors for spring that taps into your crafty talents. These favors may take a lot more time, money, and labor, but your guests will treasure them for years to come. Ideas for favors that employ talents can include:

• Miniature wooden birdhouses
• Hand-sewn or embroidered pot holders
• Individual faux flower arrangements
• Scrapbook page for a photo of the guests from the wedding
• Jewelry or metal cufflinks

Edible delights, like a muffin recipe that has been passed down through the family for generations, can also be used as favors. Bakers, cooks, and amateur chefs alike may enjoy making up batches of their favorite cookies or creating mini-cakes or breads for each guest. However, these favors should be done within days of the wedding to ensure freshness.

Other Homemade Spring Favor Ideas from LoveToKnow

Still stuck on what to send guests home with? Need a hand finding instructions for a great crafty favor? Other LoveToKnow channels can help. Check out these how-to articles that provide great ideas for spring favors:

• How To Make Jam
• Soap Making Recipe and Mold
• Making Gel Candles
• Quick and Easy Beaded Picture Frame

Use supplies that reflect your wedding theme or colors. Always add a ribbon, cellophane wrap or favor box, and tag to each guest’s favor expressing your thanks for their presence at your wedding.

If you have made great homemade wedding favors for spring celebrations, share your tips with us. Simply add a comment at the end of this article to help out your fellow readers.